Silences

Cinema programming scheduled in the Museums’ Auditorium

Tuesday May 5th at 8pm
An evening with Samuel Beckett
In the presence of Marin Karmitz
Comedie, directed by Marin Karmitz, 1966, 18’
Film, directed by Alain Schneider, 1965, 24’
Dis Joe, directed by Michel Mitrani, 1965/66, 33’52”
Free entrance, limited seating

Wednesday May 13th at 8pm
An evening with Tadeusz Kantor
In the presence of Marie Vayssière, director, actress
La Classe morte, directed by Nat Lilensztein, 1987, 52’
Kantor (1915-1990) founded the Theater Cricot 2 in 1955. There he pursued research on diverse philosophical and pictoral influences to create “fundamental protest of a theater breaking apart”, culminating in  La Classe morte in 1975.
Free entrance, limited seating

Tuesday May 19th at 8pm
An evening with Martial Raysse
In the presence of Anaël Pigeat, historian and art critic
Jesus-Cola ou L’Hygiene de la vision, 1966-1967, 12’
Homero Presto, 1968, 9’
Camembert Martial extra-doux, 1969, 14’
Le Grand depart, 1970, 70’
In Martial Raysse’s resolutely experimental work we find a pronounced taste for narrative distortion and the revolution of image. With his characters he cultivates ambivalence between humanity and bestiality, in the image of the tragic-comic fables in which they are inscribed.
Free entrance, limited seating

Tuesday May 26th at 8pm
An evening with Bruce Nauman
Thighing (Blue), 1967, 4’36
Pinchneck, 1968, 2’
Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance), 1967-68, 10’
Bouncing Two Balls Between the Floor and Ceiling with Changing Rhythms, 1967-68, 10’
Playing A Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio, 1967-68, 10’
Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square, 1967-68, 10’
Gauze, 1969, 8’
Pulling Mouth, 1969, 8’
Pioneer of video art, Bruce Nauman invents a language he will manipulate in future installations that consists of recording the movement of his own body using fragmented images and devices and constraint.
Free entrance, limited seating
Tuesday June 2nd at 8pm
An evening with Chris Marker
In presence of François Niney, film instructor at Paris III and Femis.
La Jetée, 1962, 28’
La Jetée is a science-fiction “photo-roman” about the struggle for survival after a nuclear catastrophe. Static shots accompanied by music and commentary follow one another like so many destroyed landscapes.
A.K., 1985, 75’
In 1984 Akira Kurosawa explored Mount Fuij to film Ran, transposition of King Lear. Chris Marker followed up with A.K., in which he gives us a humble but distanced look at someone he considers to be one of the greatest filmmakers ever.
Free entrance, limited seating

Tuesday June 16th at 8pm
An evening with Christian Boltanski
L’Homme qui tousse, 1969, 3’
L’Homme qui lèche, 1969, 2’25’’
Comment pouvons-nous le supporter, 30”
Tout ce dont je me souviens, 24’
Derriere la porte, 1970, 2’30”
Beginning in 1968 Christian Boltanski’s films explore little individual stories, everyday objects pulled from an ordinary life, in order to constitute an inventory or a stratification of memory.
Les archives de C.B. by Brigitte Cornand, 1998, 52’
This artist’s creations, both humorous and tragic, become illusory documents of archives over time, retracing her modest and repetitive activities.
Free entrance, limited seating

Tuesday June 23rd at 8pm
An evening with Dieter Appelt
In the presence of Francoise Paviot, Gallery owner
Wiesant Cinema (homage to Ozu), 2005, 20’
Forthbride-Cinema, 2003-2004, 3’30”
Image de la vie et de la mort, 1981, 12’
Mexico/Quetzacoal, 1981, 18’
Sorano I and II, 1983,7’
Waldrandabhörung (listening to the forest), 1987, extract : 5’
Especially known for his photography, Dieter Appelt has always worked with animation. This selection of films made between 1981 and 2005 is an occasion to discover his exacting work.
Free entrance, limited seating

Tuesday June 30th at 8pm
An evening with Abbas Kiarostami
Five, 2004, 74’
Mid-way between his photographic work and his films, Five, offers contemplation and digression, which finds a particular place in Kiarostami’s work.
Free entrance, limited seating

 
Events scheduled in partnership with Video les Beaux Jours